Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
Harvard University Press, $32.95 hb, 238 pp
Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum has been attracting attention in the Australian press recently for her views on the importance of the humanities in university education. As the British government prepares to cut all public funding for the teaching of the humanities, social sciences, and much else besides, Nussbaum’s last book, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (2010), has been widely cited by those espousing the public benefit attached to the teaching of the humanities.
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Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Harvard University Press, $32.95 hb, 238 pp
